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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are changing the mental health and substance use care landscape.

Identifying CCBHCs’ effects in different justice settings can be difficult as public health and public safety budgets are managed separately with separate data tracking systems and indicators for success. Two CCBHCs have data on their impacts to the justice systems and how those within justice settings have also supported increased…

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are transforming access to addiction and mental illness care. CCBHCs must meet stringent criteria regarding timeliness of access, care coordination, quality reporting, staffing and scope of services. In return, they receive Medicaid payment based on a prospective payment system (PPS). States and the federal…

SAMHSA CCBHC certification requirements include a requirement that CCBHC’s have a medical director as part of their executive team and that the medical director be responsible for facilitating the integration of care and clinical standards of care. To assist CCBHC’s with meeting these requirements the MDI has developed a…

Learn how states can use the CCBHC model to streamline mobile crisis response and other mental health and substance use services, including 988.

SAMHSA, in co-sponsorship with NASMHPD, convened with national partners across critical working sectors involved with 988 to help advance 988 planning efforts at the state and local levels. These national-level meetings brought together states, territories, and tribes; crisis contact centers; public safety answering points; and behavioral health providers to exchange…